Two car garage addition
Katie
4 years ago
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Help with Master Suite Over Attached 1 Car Garage Addition
Comments (11)Essentially, you'll have a box of 15x20, right? The bedroom is one is of the 15x part (maybe 15 by 13); and the closet and bath are the other end of the 15x (say 15x7 divided between the 2 spaces). If you do a walk in closet, you don't want it any narrower than 6 feet, but 7 is better (clothes take up 2 feet of space on either side, and you need to be able to walk in.) A lot of times, a reach in closet gives you more hanging room, esp if your closet will be shallow. A 13 foot wide room is wide enough for a king bed with small night stands on either side and nothing else. If you turn the bed on the 15' wall, there is more room to either side, but less at the foot of the bed. (a bed is usually around 7 feet long, so if it is on the short wall, you have lots of room at the foot of the bed.) The best thing to do is draw out your box on graph paper, cut out a few furniture graph papers and arrange them a few ways to see what looks like it will work best for you. Glad you will be using a contractor. Also, as you get bids from contractors, you will learn what can and can't be done (the tie-in to plumbing for the bath will be the trickiest/most expensive part)....See MoreTwo car garage with single driveway
Comments (9)How wide is your lot and will you have a detached garage? Can you post an overhead view of your lot and house site? I'm posting an overhead of mine just for an example because we bought an existing house with a narrow-ish driveway. (Older neighborhood.) It had a small semi-attached garage on the right, which we tore down and replaced with a larger detached garage, but still only had room for a single car driveway. The apron flares out between the sidewalk and the street, but you can't really tell because of the trees. The driveway flares out in front of the garage to access the two separate doors. We staggered the front so that it's not just a flat expanse of one giant door, and to give a bit more space b/w garage and house when backing out of the left side garage door. (Backing out on the left was good practice when the kids were learning to drive.) Also the deeper right side gives it room for an interior stairway up to the 2nd floor storage space, which has windows on 3 sides and is suprisingly bright and roomy. Now that we have 4 cars it's kind of a PITA when everyone is home. But there's enough room to pull up a big truck (F150) on the right side in front of the garage and still have room for my son to pull his car (Taurus) up to park on the left. DD and I get to park our cars in the garage. :)...See MoreAdding additional one car garage and front porch
Comments (19)If you incorporate the existing garage closest to the house as a porch, then, if you add your two car garage with its door(s) facing the same direction as the door of the house -- not the direction of the existing garage door(s) , you could also extend the right wall of that garage several feet in front of the existing garage and create a shelter/overhang over the existing garage doors that lead to the front porches -- the one created from the existing garage adjacent to the house that could be connected to the smaller portico at the front door of the house. Driving in, you'd not even see the remaining garage door behind the new 2-car garage. You could connect the two garages with a door. If you like the style of your home ... if you want to keep true to the original design of your home, contact an architect to design your porch and garage addition. Putting up just any porch roof or even a smaller portico roof might not turn out as well as it could....See MoreTwo car garage conversion, Master Primary Suite advice, recommendation
Comments (33)While I think the revisions addressed some issues, I would 1. make the vanity longer and use up all the space possible. Remember, 2 sink vanities lose a lot of drawer/storage space. Also, is there any other storage in the bathroom? Where will a towel-rack go or even a bar to hang a towel? 2. A desk inside the closet? Not what I would do, but maybe you have a good reason. You're going to need some serious lighting conditions in there to address the needs of someone working at the desk. 3. You must have a great relationship with a plumber, because none of the water-needing devices are back-to-back which means a whole lot of plumbing. 4. I'd probably close up that door from the bathroom to the closet. 1st, you get more hanging space in the closet. 2nd, you get room to add a tall bank of cabinets in the bathroom for storage. 5. Is that the shower in the upper left corner? 6' by 5'? That's an awfully big shower (bigger showers not always better, since it might not be as warm in there), and then a little dinky toilet area which is going to feel cramped. 6. The master bedroom is still so big you can fit a sofa in there. This is my personal preference, but here you are adding all this "utility" to a big space...2 bathrooms, a desk to work at, a new laundry room... and yet you still want all that roomy space around the bed. I just wouldn't want that, if I were you. To me, I consider having separate vanities a far bigger luxury than space around a bed, or having a sofa in my bedroom. I do think it's a great idea to have the laundry close to the kitchen like that. But a powder room that is going to flush while people are dining at the table? And they'll be able to smell from there? All in all, I don't really know why you are opposed to getting an architect. I'd want it done right for the amount of money you'll end up paying for construction....See Moredeb s
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